Taxation and Capital Structure Choice: The Role of Ownership

Robert Krämer

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, vol. 117, issue 3, 957-982

Abstract: Applying firm fixed-effects estimations to European firm-level data, I analyze how ownership structure affects the relationship between taxation and capital structure. I find that an increase in the corporate tax rate affects the debt-to-assets ratio positively, and that this effect is stronger for firms with concentrated ownership. These results hold independently of whether firms are standalone or subsidiaries, and are also valid if subsidiaries are divided into those that are foreign-owned and those domestically owned. Lastly, ownership plays a role even when controlling for other potentially important determinants of the relation between corporate taxation and capital structure.

Date: 2015
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